QSPACE is a queer architectural research organization that pushes for organized action through exhibitions, publications, digital archiving, and design guidelines; QSPACE is a hub for students, professionals, and academics to connect and collaborate on LGBTQ topics in the built environment.

QSPACE produces research and outputs on topics such as gender inclusive bathroom design, LGBTQ homelessness and housing, and queer histories in architecture.

PROJECTS

CODED PLUMBING

Coded Plumbing investigates how laws, codes, and design standards systematically create exclusionary and sometimes violent spaces for members of the LGBTQ community.

Our research will used to develop new restroom design standards that will be available online for designers, developers, and business owners to use in their projects.

SANCTUARY

SANCTUARY, is an investigation on “what is safe space” in the context of queer homeless youth. Queer youth are especially vulnerable to homelessness: despite the fact that only roughly to 7% of the youth population identifies as LGBT, 40% of homeless youth are LGBT.

QUEER ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVE

The Architecture Archive is an online archive of queer architectural and urban projects. We will collect student, professional, and academic projects on queer topics in the built environment. The online archive will be accessible and searchable by topic hashtags, creating a resource for designers to find research precedents.

QUEER GRAPHIC DESIGN PROJECT

The Queer Graphic Design Project seeks to collect and archive graphic work from the LGBT liberation movement. Using existing LGBT archives, the Queer Graphic Design Project seeks to view the LGBT movement through graphic and visual production as a means for queer visibility.